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I had taken these snaps with my smartphone (5mp camera) about a month back. I was browsing through my photo library and found that I had a snap with it's back wing too! The 3rd pic shows the dots. Now, hopefully, we can freeze on an ID :)
Thank you, Jellis. ID seems perfect!
@Leana: your spotting ID seems correct (which is same as this). I will change the ID back to Great Eggfly.
ok, so this makes it a great eggfly then and not danaid since the 3 dots in the upper forewings are missing? So confusing! If what @AgnesAdiqueTalavera said is true (about the 2 blogs) then it indeed is wrong ID'd in many blogs.
Thanks, AgnesAdiqueTalavera! The links are very very detailed and useful :)
Yes, Adarsha. You too had suggested that this is danaid eggfly. So I'll go with majority :)
No pressures from anyone. What matters is correct classification. I thank all the nature lovers who commented here to make that happen :)
Agreed. The wing pattern looks more like this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hypoli...
@Jolly: As suggested by you, it really looks like male Hypolimnas misippus. The mattern (white patches) match exactly. Wonder what Ashish thinks about this.
